(Berlin, 25.9 2024) At this year’s Bitkom event in Berlin (24th – 26th of September 2024), Dr. Abhishek Awasthi (BASF) and Florian Krellner (SAP) presented progress and insights gained on one of the central QCHALLenge use case problems, Production Assignment. The problem involves the planning and balancing of orders on various industrial production machines with a non-linear objective function. Various modeling techniques for classical and quantum computing were developed and tested for QCHALLenge.
In their presentation Case-studies on hybrid quantum solvers for business relevant optimization use-cases, approaches and details from the following related publication were presented.

Real World Application of Quantum-Classical Optimization for Production Scheduling
Abhishek Awasthi, Nico Kraus, Florian Krellner, David Zambrano (arxiv.org/abs/2408.01641)